HIS311Y1 Lecture : No Commitments.pdf
Document Summary
Switzerland: hardened western-german borders, the spirit of locarno emerged -- that maybe things were settling down, the world order could return to normalcy. Election of 1921: meighen ran on a very strict platform, mackenzie king"s platform was that he wasn"t meighen, liberals (king) won 117 seats -- conservatives (meighen) were reduced to 50 seats in ontario (none in quebec) Canadian diplomacy, 1919-1930: want to revise an ancient treaty, the rush-bagot treaty of 1817, king wanted to negotiate something with the americans and sign it in. Canada"s name -- setting a precedent: nothing got done at that time, in march 1923 they signed the canada-us halibut treaty, this was important because canada signed it on its own right -- this upset great. Britain: the rst time canada ever signed a treaty with the us without great britain, allowed this to go through.
